There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

When war comes two things happen - profits go way way up and all perishables go way way down. There becomes a market for them.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

We can for example be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles with some scattering of others.

Really when it comes to gay rights there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.